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Dodgers right-hander Brad Penny wasn't Plan A to start for the National League in tonight's All-Star Game. But he is Plan Now.

Houston manager Phil Garner announced Monday that Penny will take the mound to begin the game, a concession to the fact most of the other candidates on the NL staff pitched in their respective clubs' first-half finales Sunday.

Penny actually appeared in the Dodgers' first-half finale, as well, but only in a rare relief outing because manager Grady Little didn't want him to go too many days without pitching in a game.

All-Star starting pitchers are limited to three innings, but in most cases, they don't go more than two. Penny will become the first Dodgers pitcher to start an All-Star Game since Hideo Nomo in 1995.

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